Rascal Mode for Emacs Released

During the last year or so I've written some program
transformations in
the Rascal programming
language. I find it beneficial to have an Emacs mode for any
language I make significant use of. Not finding an existing one
for Rascal, I proceeded to put one together myself.
See Emacs Mode
for Rascal (on GitHub) for the code.

The mode has its imperfections. Rascal is not exactly a small
language, and while it has a C-like surface syntax, there is some
unusual syntax that seems tricky to get right. The Rascal mode is
based on CC Mode,
and one quickly runs into challenges when a language has syntax
the likes of which isn't already in one of the languages supported
by CC Mode. Here it's good to keep in mind that the language
analysis capabilities of CC Mode in any case are somewhat
heuristic in nature, and the same tends to be the case with almost
all programming-language-aware Emacs modes.

The true value of
Emacs is that you can get something going for a language
quite quickly, to enable you to apply your favorite Emacs machinery
on said language also.
Emacs-based tools such as
Auto
Complete Mode and
YASnippet,
for instance, are very general in their usefulness, and can be
applied to writing prose, even. They have certainly written quite
a few words of Rascal code on my behalf already.